Donald Trump’s Top 10 Ways to Think Like a Billionaire

I was recently thumbing through Donald Trump's book Think Like a Billionaire and I was delighted to find a list of the top 10 ways to think like a billionaire. The similarities between the rich & successful and B&D are always astounding. Highly successful people like Donald Trump always seem to think the same way.

Whether it is success in sport, business, or art- successful people always live by the same rules. People always find success the same way, and Donald Trump gives you the tools and rules to live by.

Before we get into Donald's rules, you need to know this one certainty: Getting rich requires a mindset shift.

To think big and get rich you must follow the rules of the successful – even if you don't like them! Normal people want a step-by-step guide to getting wealthy and they scoff when their wealth guides don't include concrete steps from A to Z. No one's going to sell you a get-rich-quick scheme that actually works. Plans that work are always kept in secret. You think Colonel Sanders is just going to give you his famous chicken recipe? Get real. You have to make your own recipe for success.

The key to understanding the path to success is to understand that it is a MINDSET, it isn't an instruction manual like you get from Ikea. The real step-by-step guides to wealth focus on mindset not on actions. None of the rules of success work unless you do the work! That's why the truly successful try to teach you about mindset rather than by giving you concrete rules to follow. If you give a man a fish he eats for a day, if you teach a man to fish he eats for a lifetime.

When you can understand the mindset without becoming emotional, that's when you can unlock the key to wealth.

When you fish for success your mindset is the bait that attracts success. After you develop the mindset, everything else falls into place. With the wrong mindset, nothing works. With the right mindset, everything works. The actual steps you take to success are irrelevant. It's the mindset, the stone-cold belief, that brings you to new heights. Adopt the mindset, take the daily steps and there you are.

Successful people think differently than normal people. “Successful people” thoughts are much colder and bolder than “normal people” thoughts. The rules of the rich always seem counter-intuitive to normal people but that's because normal people were taught the normal rules by normal people. Rich people play by different rules and don't give a damn if you like it or not. That's what you have to learn how to do – think rich without remorse.

If you want to get rich you must start thinking (and acting) like a successful person.

When normal people hear the thoughts of the successful they start to act like children. They hear the truth and get uncomfortable, then they shrink and say “that's bad” like little infant babies. Boo-hoo, too bad, cry more and then get over it. You must stop complaining that thoughts are bad. Success is as it is – not as you wish it to be.

You must realize that rich and successful people think this way for a reason. It is infinitely better to be bold than it is to be meek. If something works, it works. You need not be emotional about it. Instead, be curious, reverse-engineer the plan, emulate it and apply it to your own life and business. If you waste your brainpower being sad that these traits are “bad” then you won't get anywhere. But if you're ready to learn to earn from the master of the MAGA mindset, here you go…

Donald Trump's Top 10 Ways To Think Like The Rich

#1) Don't take vacations.

“What's the point? If you're not enjoying your work, you're in the wrong job. Even when I'm playing golf, I'm doing business. I never stop, and I'm usually having fun.” – Donald Trump

What business is Donald Trump in? He's in the Donald Trump business. He isn't in the real estate business or the publishing business – he's in the Donald Trump business and his business stays open 24/7.

To get big success, always be “on” like Jerry Seinfeld. Your mind has to constantly be on work. Your mindset and actions are literally what make the business. Your work becomes you as business and life become intertwined. There is no “business/life balance” for highly successful people. The truly successful people ARE the business.

It isn't possible to truly take a break when you're business is your life 24/7. You can take a break from the office but you can't take a break from being you. A king never stops being a king! Even if he's on an island with a bunch of beautiful babes in bikinis – he's still the king. He still has responsibilities and business on his mind and it won't ever go away unless he quits, fails or retires.

When your mind is always on work it is impossible to relax on some beach somewhere. Even if you take a physical vacation, you'll never have a mental vacation. That's if you actually even wanted a vacation. When you have passion for your work, vacations are the worst thing in the world.

When you have a burning passion for what you do, you are the most relaxed while working. When big business is on your mind, working is relaxing and vacations are stressful. Take a vacation while your building a million dollar business? Don't make me laugh. Business first, forever and ever and never to stop until you die or quit.

#2) Have a short attention span.

“Most successful people have very short attention spans. It has a lot to do with imagination. Quite often, I'll be talking to someone and I'll know what they're going to say before they say it. After the first three words are out of their mouth, I can tell what the next forty are going to be, so I try to pick up the pace and move it along. You can get more done faster that way.” -Donald Trump

Be ahead of the game. When you're ahead of the game, your attention span will be cut short because it won't have another option. You'll be living in the future (because you're the visionary) and the people around you are all stuck in the past. When they speak we've heard it all before and we already know what they're going to say.

People often want to explain to you in detail and it becomes tedious because you already know the details. “Come on and get to the point” becomes your every day reaction to people who are too slow to get to the point. It would be like explaining remedial math to an engineer – the engineer already knows basic math and he's moved past it.

You don't have to be a mega-genius to get rich, but you do have to be pro-active and ahead of the game. When people are talking to you you're in a state of reaction and they're behind the game. No need to suffer through their words, just cut them off and move on. Ain't nobody got time for slow people.

#3) Don't sleep any more than you have to.

“I usually sleep about four hours per night. I'm in bed by 1am and up to read the newspapers at 5am. That's all I need and it gives me a competitive edge. I have friends who are successful and sleep ten hours a night, and I ask them, “How can you compete against a people like me if I only sleep four hours?” It rarely can be done. No matter how brilliant you are, there's not enough time in the day.” -Donald Trump

You have to work all the damn time to get ahead in a big way. Driven people hate sleep because it really gets in the way of work. If I could personally reduce or eliminate sleep I would. I'm not a jealous man but you can bet I'm envious of this next secret.

Here's a real secret of big success (that you can't do anything about): Many highly successful people do not require much sleep to function. They're called short-sleepers and they only need 2-4 hours of sleep per night to function at a high level.

Natural “short sleepers,” as they're officially known, are night owls and early birds simultaneously. They typically turn in well after midnight, then get up just a few hours later and barrel through the day without needing to take naps or load up on caffeine.

They are also energetic, outgoing, optimistic and ambitious, according to the few researchers who have studied them. The pattern sometimes starts in childhood and often runs in families.

While it's unclear if all short sleepers are high achievers, they do have more time in the day to do things, and keep finding more interesting things to do than sleep, often doing several things at once.

Not everyone can be a short-sleeper, but everyone can reduce your time spent sleeping. The experts say you need 8 hours of sleep, Arnold Schwarzenegger says you only need 6. Who you gonna believe? If you think you need 8 hours of sleep instead of 6, Arnold has some advice for you: Sleep faster.

#4) Don't depend on technology.

“A lot of it is unnecessary and expensive. I don't have a computer on my desk. I don't use an intercom. When I want someone in my office, I yell. It works a lot better than an intercom, and it's much faster. I don't even have an ATM card…When I go to restaurants, I rarely have to pay. It's usually on the house. The sad part is that if I needed the money, they would make me pay!” -Donald Trump

Technology doesn't create the mindset. It's the opposite, innovative mindset creates technology. All you need is the mindset, you don't need gadgets and doo-dads to succeed.

I always talk about how I didn't even have a smart-phone for a numbers of years while building my publishing business. A smart-phone would have been an enormous distraction to me at that time. Focus is key. Electronic distractions can be just that – distractions! When you're working, turn off the phone, turn off the email, turn off the twitter and focus on work.

#5) Think of yourself as a one-man army.

“You're not only the commander in chief, you're the soldier as well. You must plan and execute your plan alone.” -Donald Trump

Your journey to success starts and ends with you. Other people will help you along the way but no one will do the work for you. Your mindset is the model of the business and without your mindset there is no business. There's no Trump Tower without Donald Trump. Thousands of people helped to build the tower but only one man made Trump Tower possible.

YOU must be the innovator, YOU must be the risk-taker, YOU must be the visionary, YOU must be the leader. Everyone else is a follower, trying to play catch-up to your imagination. It's you. It isn't us and it isn't we – it's you! You're a lone wolf in this game so get used to it. Read You, Inc. to learn how to start your one-man army.

#6) It's often to your advantage to be underestimated.

“You never want people to think you're a loser or a schlepper, but it's not a good idea if they think you're the smartest guy in the room, either. Because I wrote The Art of the Deal, everyone is always on guard whenever I negotiate with them. One of the reasons President Reagan was such a successful candidate was because rival politicians consistently misjudged him. They assumed an actor wouldn't be able to compete.

In How to Get Rich, I discussed how important it is to let people know about your accomplishments. I'll always believe that but there are time when it's even more impressive if people discover your accomplishments without you telling them directly.” -Donald Trump

It is often better to fly under the radar. When people expect huge (yuuuge) things from you and all you give them is big things, they will be disappointed. If people expect little from you and you deliver big they will be delighted.

Often, if people don't expect much from you they will leave you alone to work in peace. If they expect too much from you, they'll never leave you alone (and eventually you will blow up as an “overnight success” that no one expected or predicted). They'll always be harassing you for results, stressing you out.

Everyone should know you are rich and smart, but not everyone need to know exactly how rich and smart you are. Everyone thinks they know and that's the real fun, no one really knows but you.

#7) Success breeds success.

“The best way to impress people is through results. It's easier for me to do deals now because I've had so many triumphs. You have to create success to impress people in the world of business. If you're young and you haven't had any successes yet, then you have to create the impression of success. It doesn't matter whether the success is a small one or a big one-you have to start with something and build on it.” -Donald Trump

Wait a second here, “create the impression of success?” That sounds a lot like pretending! Too bad there is no way you could pretend yourself into success, right? Wrong. People can and do fake it 'til they make it. But there are two types of people who fake it 'til they make it:

People who fake it

People who fake it UNTIL they make it

See the difference? Some people who “fake it 'til they make it” forget the 2nd part, make it, and all they do is fake it. Those people are liars, fakers and con-artists. But then there is the 2nd type of people who fake it until they actually make it. These people were never fake at all, they simply saw what other people didn't see. They were visionaries and they turned the vision in their heads into a reality. They saw their success clearly in their minds, they believed it, and that self-belief eventually became reality.

Before you “make it” they'll call you fake and delusional. After you've made it they'll call you a visionary with immense self-belief. Remember, it doesn't matter what they call you at first, it only matters what you believe and achieve. No one was successful before they were successful. It has to start somewhere.

To become successful you have to believe you will become successful. Belief with nothing to show for it (yet) is cocky and brash but it's better to be cocky and brash than it is to be meek and weak. No one ever got ahead with a meek mindset. Success takes a damn #MAGA Mindset! After you “make it” you'll have the most beautiful thing in the world: MOMENTUM.

#8) Friends are good, but family is better.

“It's better to trust your family than your friends.” -Donald Trump

“B-b-b-but I trusted you!” -Schmuck

The silly need to trust people is for children. When you grow up you always have someone you know you can trust – yourself. Trust in yourself and your vision and trust other people to be people. It is beyond silly place your trust in another man's value and integrity when all you need to trust is your own.

Friends are fun, but trust is a silly thing to give out. You never need to trust friends. You only need to trust them to be themselves and act in a way they normally act. They're there for fun, conversation, deals and companionship. You can trust your friends to show up to dinner on time at 9pm but you don't need to trust them with every detail of your life and business. People change and you can't predict it or stop it. Even if you felt they were trustworthy yesterday, tomorrow they may not be.

You're in this game alone and you don't give out trust because it's just not necessary to give out trust. You don't have to be paranoid and think that everyone is out to get you, but you have to understand that it is a possibility. You cannot be naive and blind to the reality of people. People aren't infallible beings of nobility and virtue, even if you're friendly with them.

People are just people and when push comes to shove they will act like people – emotional, reactive, jealous, envious, sensitive, vindictive. That doesn't make them bad people, it just makes them people. Your friends shouldn't trust you either and if you think they should you are emotional and naive, which are two very normal traits of people.

If you need to trust someone, the only people you can ever count on is family. Family is always there, through thick and thin, whether you're rich or poor. But what if your family is untrustworthy? Don't trust them either!

#9) Treat each decision like a lover.

“Vast fortunes are accumulated through dozens of decisions a day, thousands a month, and hundreds of thousands in a career. Yet each decision is different in it's own way. Sometimes you decide immediately-love at first sight. Sometimes you go slowly-the long engagement.

If you treat each decision like a lover-faithfully, respectfully, appropriately-you won't be locked into a rigid system. You'll adapt to the needs of the particular system. Sometimes you'll think with your head. Other times you'll think with other parts of your body, and that's good. Some of the best business decisions are made out of passion.” -Donald Trump

Bruce Lee said it better when he said “Be like water.” Immovable stones get left behind, water adapts to any situation.

Each situation is different and you cannot treat each decision with the same decision-making formula. You have to be creative sometimes, you have to be analytical sometimes, you have to be stone-cold sometimes, you have to be warm-hearted sometimes.

You will always have to adapt to each situation to make the best decision. Everything should be on a case-by-case basis. You cannot be robotical all of the time and make smart business decisions just like you cannot rely on feeling or gut-instinct 100% of the time (but usually you can).

#10) Be curious.

“A successful person is always going to be curious. I don't know why this is true, but it's definitely the case. You have to be alive to your surroundings and hungry to understand your immediate world. Otherwise, you'll lack the perspective to see beyond yourself.” -Donald Trump

Non-curious people never get anywhere. They have no vision of the future. They don't know how things work and they don't care to find out. Bad way to live life. Curious people, however, possess the building blocks of vision, invention and innovation. They want to learn how things work and how to make things work better.

Curiosity is a trait, it isn't an item on your “get rich checklist”. If you don't have this trait then you will need to cultivate it. The good news – curiosity is a word to describe people who want to learn. Since you are reading this magical article you already possess curiosity and you're a step ahead of the regular Joes and Joanas who don't care to learn.

Your curiosity will serve you on your quest to get rich in exactly this way: You will be curious as to how rich people got rich so you will study how to get rich. You will ask questions about exactly what rich people did to get rich. Your curiosity will lead you to books by Donald Trump and blogs like B&D.

You will reverse-engineer all great fortunes to see how it was done and to see what tips and strategies you can use on your quest to wealth. Eventually you will realize why you cannot follow a step-by-step formula for success because you have to be flexible like water, and step-by-step formulas are inflexible and un-creative. You'll come to realize that when Napoleon Hill said “if you can believe it you can achieve it” he was right.

You'll start to realize that you had a blueprint to wealth the whole damn time and all you had to do was internalize the MAGA mindset and follow the light to success. Eventually you will figure out the key to success that has been alluding you this whole time…

It's.

All.

In.

Your.

Mind.

So make your mindset great because when you get your mind right everything else is easy, peasy, Japaneasy.

Until next time.

Your man,
-Victor Pride

Bonus: The Donald Trump Book Business for Beginners

Donald Trump seems to release book after book after book. Do you think there's any money in that? Must be. Too bad Trump has all the money in the world to throw at marketing.

No way a regular Joe could ever be a professional writer making a ton of money running his self-publishing business. It requires way too much money upfront, right? Wrong! Anyone can write well, anyone can self-publish and anyone can make money, laughing all the way to the bank – if you do it right.

I fall under the same umbrella, Vic. If I eat large meals, I generally sleep more and wind up feeling like shit. If I eat fewer, lighter meals the opposite happens. If you really want to see how it affects you, stop eating after lunch and don’t eat again until the next morning. My guess is you’ll wake up feeling rather chipper.

Short sleep is about quality over quantity. If you sleep in REM phase for 4 hours straight, then you won’t have to sleep any more than that. But most of our sleep isn’t in the REM sleep, only partial. That’s why we need to sleep more. If you can solve this then you will have the answer.

I’ll tell you what works for me: I sleep when I’m tired and I don’t sleep when I am not tired. Same thing for food: I eat when I’m hungry and I don’t eat when I am not hungry.

I’ve tried sleeping on a set schedule. It doesn’t work for me. If you find yourself tossing and turning at night, try doing something productive instead of forcing yourself to get mediocre sleep.

I’ve tried shoveling food down my throat (as much as I can without getting sick) and I can’t gain any weight. Oh well. Evidently my metabolism is too high. Could it be that I am always on high alert? This raging orchestra inside my mind will never rest! Sigh.

Oh, and I usually go to bed super early (around 7-8). I can get as much sleep as I need and wake up super early (around 2 in the morning). And traffic? Ha! I got the roads to myself in the wee hours of the morning. I go to work early, kick ass like no one’s business, come home and eat a large healthy meal and…rinse and repeat.

Oh, and don’t use an alarm clock. If you have one, toss it in the garbage. One of the best things I have ever done.

Reading this makes my toes curl! Vic, I’ve always been an early-riser and sleep on average about 6 hours a night. I’m going to get this down to 4. Screw the competition. There is no competition. Time is money. Thanks for the killer content. To quote you, “How do you build a blog following? You write Fire!”

The point about visualising your reality is very true. One of the best examples of that is Lewis Howes. The guy started selling Linkedin tutorials when he himself did not have a job. Many people would not have even thought of doing that. But he STUDIED LInkedin in and out and became an expert in it. Rest is history.

I took a veyr similar approach with my photography workshops. I never waited till my photography knowledge was perfect. I started teaching people and rectified the course as I went along. That was two years back. Fast-forward to today, I’m the most popular photography trainer in my city and I’ve hepled over 1000 people learn the art photography with my workshops. I’ve also made more money that I ever did in the 14 jobs I quit after my MBA.

This made me realise that your gut instinct is right most of the times. One thing is leading to another and now I’m on the verge of starting online marketing workshops and personal development talks and I feel so confident that just like with y photography workshops, I can see myself already succeeding in it. In fact just today, I gave a talk on Facebook marketing at an event and the 25 or so people present in the event loved it.

Thanks to people like Victor, more people are realising that success and happiness are things that can be learned like any other skill. You just have to really want it and be able to really visualise yourself doing it. Any other barrier is just a doubt that you should be bulldozed upon. I’ve seen that once you take action, everything starts to fall in place.

Anyways, this is a fantastic article. #1 is ON THE MONEY. If you need a vacation from what you do, you’re building someone else’s dream life, not your own.

From Jay-Z: “I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man.” He’s always on, he’s always plotting and building mentally, and look where it’s gotten him. When I sit down to crush work, I’m zen and productive. When I sit around and chill out, I’m usually bored and don’t understand how that is the norm for some. My laptop is in the shop right now, and I’m antsy and working off my iPod and reading… They wonder why I keep coming back to the shop every few hours.

When you’re adaptable like water, the only plan, the only vision, and the only execution that matters is your own.

Be a one-man show with accomplices if you must, but it’s up to you to make your life your personal paradise.

#3 is so true… my only problem is that I am inconsistent.
Last month I woke up every day between 4:30 and 5 to work on some project and study. I have ever been as productive in my life as last month.
This month? I can’t drag myself out of bed. No idea why, I just feel extremely tired.

I like your soft selling at the end with instructions for people to sign up for BADNET.

8 Hours of sleep is overblown in my opinion. This topic is subjective nonetheless but personally for me, I find that 5~6 hours of sleep works. Some people may even do it less than that.

Many people produce, or invent things that would help masses of people, have people buy it, and in return get rich. Most of them use (already-existing) product and just add modifications or alter it little bit to ‘improve’ upon it. Refine it, remodel it, brand it in your own name, style and market it and beta-test it and sell it to the masses. Sometimes it may hit and some cases it will not.

24 hours goes by so fast when you are so busy, you forget to eat lunch, barely eat for dinner (quick microwave frozen food for five minutes, eat, inhale) go back to work…

When you are time conscious, you will be asking people “what’s your point?” if they keep going off the tangent and circling around with their discussions. Short and succinct. No point of stretching out 10 minutes discussion when bottom line can be delivered within 45 seconds.

Since masses of people are consumers, it’s always good idea to even get 30 seconds of their attention, within that 30 seconds, it takes a master skill persuasion for a common person to make decision and buy something from you. Whether it’s online or in person. After making “enough” money to live comfortably, the rest just becomes game.

Commercials spend a lot of money on marketing because they know someone out there is going to get their wallet out and call, click, buy.

It’s better to have networks and successful business partners as contact list instead of “drinking buddies” or friends.

Yes, fake it until make it. Majority of people wouldn’t be able to tell whether you first faked it and then made it. You have to make it look like you made it from start to finish without the faking part and you don’t even need to tell because people will just believe.

Never reveal everything about you to anyone. Always have them guessing and it’s always good to know weak spots of others (to use as possible leverage in negotiable situations). Don’t deliberately press on others in ill-fated manner but do know and prepare in case you have to in worst case scenario.

When you accept people as who they are and that they will only change when they really want to, you tune out, not care, put full focus on yourself and you are on a steamroll and anyone in your way will have to move out or get lost.

Use eyes to observe, experience it yourself and then write about it. More experience, the better. Speak short but have impact. Public speaking is one of the most underrated skills, not many are comfortable with it and if you can sell yourself and make the people believe, other companies would make a dash and would want to have you as their representative/spokesperson.

In business world, trying to talk like “know-it-all” and pulling shit out of arse will quickly harm your reputation. For anyone out there, it’s about —> If you don’t know, say “Hmmm I like to know more”… take notes, listen. Even if you do know, you can use this to filter out the fake phonies from the real one.

Keeping promise and delivering on time is also a valuable skill. You can quickly tell someone if they made it or not.

Having successful business skills, negotiation tactics and ability to sell, deliver, and be punctual… create a value. Stand out from the rest of the crowd.

Always implement right after you read a useful advice. Tweak it to suit your business and write about it. Brand it, Market it, Sell it.

I have said it before and will say it again! I’m not a fan of Trump but GOD DAMN IT you have to admire his success and these 10 rules hit the nail on the head for me. I might just go ahead and invest in Trumps “Art Of The Deal”

Right now I’m sitting at home because I was suspended from work for 2 days because of a miscommunication. Still I could be mad but its just not worth it as I learned a long time ago that when you dealing with people you also deal with their imperfections (emotions, feelings of inaccuracy, jealousy and the like). I never put my confidence on others when I can do things on my own. Average Joes will look at this as a failure me on the other hand I look at this as an opportunity!

An opportunity to do what I always wanted to do for a long time and that is to move from where I live to another state where I think there will be more opportunity for a guy like me. My work ethic is tremendous and my willingness to help people is always there but its true what you said Victor that If you constantly do BIG THINGS many people will tend to foster hate because then once the people know they will come to you more and more hoping you can solve their issue. My curiosity has helped me get involved in all aspects of business at the place I work. While everyone else just stands around and complain no how shit don’t work I jump right in and find out why it does not work and figure out a way to work it.

Being on suspension has made me realize that its time to move on to bigger and better things. Your post has made me feel better and realize that I need to rearrange my Mindset which has helped me so far in looking at this situation and deciding that its time to go!

I was so excited to red your emails when I first signed up last week. What a disappointment to see advice from Donald Trump! It doesn’t matter how rich someone is, if they proudly ignorant of other people’s differences, I’m not interested in their advice. Please unsubscribe me.

This…. ladies and gents is the classic example of political correctness and the rampant stupidity in the world today, it’s exactly why we need Trump. Morons like this guy have drank the cool aid and love beating their little pathetic drum of liberal loving bullshit. This guy is what’s commonplace in the world today, a brain dead zombie trying to save the mongrels. Yet what he doesn’t realize is those same mongrels he’s defending would love to rob him, take all that’s his and wouldn’t hesitate to kill him over $5.

1) There’s an unsubscribe button at the bottom of every email.
2) To discount good business advice simply because you don’t like the individual is foolish.

You’re welcome to do whatever you want, but you’re really going to hinder your progress just because you don’t like the source of the information provided. Try to curb the knee-jerk emotional response and be objective about the information provided. Sláinte.

One of my biggest fears used to be that I though I was far too lazy and stupid to achieve success. I grew up around dumb, do-nothing hillbillies and I felt horribly destined for the same fate.Years ago I would screw around and do nothing with my time, smoke weed and just sit around for hours like a damn slob. Deep inside I knew that I wanted to get my act together but I was afraid that I didn’t have it in me. I was defeating myself mentally before I even gave myself a chance to try.
I was scared of so many things, most of all failure because I felt that it would be the confirmation of my fears.

That’s part of the reason why I joined the military, to make something out of nothing and to go where most others are afraid to go. But even after leaving the Corps I was still unfocused. I lacked the consistency that you gotta have.

Its funny how my life is totally different now. I work my ass off constantly, I never take a day off and I truly couldn’t be happier. Whenever I’m not earning I am learning a new skill or something about how the world works. Bold and Determined has honestly improved my life so very much…

For some of us, a success-driven mindset comes more naturally. For others like myself, it is a PROCESS that takes a never ever quit attitude and an endless burning desire. When quitting never enters your mind and you continue to put in that work every day just like Victor says, you really do begin to actually BELIEVE and from there you slowly begin to see your surroundings changing.

I’m really glad you have shown me and so many others that there’s a way out of the 9-5 jive.

In the mornings, I’m hustling to make my ideas a reality. You are one of the people that I have deep appreciation for and myself and so many others are grateful for the work you are doing. I will tell you the same thing face-to-face.

In the afternoons, I sell monthly membership subscriptions for a massive charity here in Australia. It’s one of those jobs that is a highly stressful because of daily and weekly targets we all have to meet. Turnover rates are extremely high. Old people are getting trained every day and under performers get fired on the spot. Cut-throat environment.

Most people consider that highly stressful and smoke at every opportunity they get. Everyone is afraid of getting fired and the pressure is enormous. For me – it’s different. Sure, it would be inconvenient to lose a job at this point, but its not the end of the world by any means. I know that I’m building something that represents my character and experience and I genuinely want to help other people. Building this mindset took a few years, but it’s well fucking worth it.

Most people are just not working long and smart enough. There are so many hours in a day that are being wasted. Thank you again for showing me that.

Left to ponder is the fact that he stated he only needs 4 hours of sleep.
He is in great health and the energy he shows at his age is something tremendous to witness whilst he is running for president but I wonder?

Can we all get by on 4 hours of sleep?
Is it applicable?

Now see you can throw out these facts that he sleeps 4 hours Uncle’ Vic but what I’d like to know is if you sleep that much and if it is something you would advise guys in their early 20’s to do so as well if not what range (min-max hrs of sleep) do you advise.

Sergio Marchionne sleeps about three hours a night (he’s up at 3AM) , and when there’s a holiday in Europe he travels to the US and viceversa. He works 7 days a week.
That said, download a sleeping pattern tracker and see at what time you get out of your REM phase.

I listened to the Flight Director loop for the Apollo XIII mission. For those who don’t remember the story, in brief a fuel tank exploded while the astronauts were halfway to the Moon. In order to survive all those involved with the mission had to be very creative, and the astronauts had to live in a Lunar Module that was NOT designed for that kind of emergencies.
Now, go on youtube and listen to the tapes from the moment of the accident (loud static noise and then “Houston, we’ve had a problem”. “Thirteen, uh… repeat please?”, “We have had a problem!”),
Listen very carefully to what happens and how Mission Control switches its attitude from “let’s happily reach the moon”, to “what happened”, and then to “don’t blow this mission up!” (it took them about one hour to figure out that the problem was catastrophic and unrecoverable).
If you pay attention, you will notice how the decisions were taken, and how fast things were going.
Piece of the Problem? Solution? Decision. Boom. Next.
Piece of the Problem? Solution? Decision. Boom. Next.
Piece of the Problem? Solution? Decision. Boom. Next.
The two flight directors (Gene Krantz first and Glynn Lunney later), never say “please” to the crew. They never re-think their decisions. They never even stop thinking about the past. It’s all “we got a big problem, and we need a series of small steps to solve it”, and they just go for it.
What amazes me is the director’s support staff work; the opposite of what a millennial would do now. They just DO, they follow instructions, and they have so much experience on whatever is their field that they can come up with correct answers without google, or even calculators. Everything is just so fast, but so precise. Better than a Swiss clockwork. It’s almost as if they could read each other’s mind.

Great article Vic, this is what I needed today. B&D is like a good spotter in the gym. When I’m feeling a little run down from the grind of building my empire, just a little nudge from your articles brings all my energy and motivation to the front, and I’m ready to push hard again.

Excellent post Mr. Pride. I agree with virtually all of the ten principles although on #3 on “health-wise” I think it’s more a “subjective” thing.

Yeah, for people who live and breath their work, the *time* spent in sleeping is time they could be using in their work; so it really comes down to a personal decision whether to do or do not as it fits.

“You can trust your friends to show up to dinner on time at 9pm but you don’t need to trust them with every detail of your life and business.”

But you can TRUST GOD with every detail of your life and business. I know this from personal experience. Amen.

About the lonewolf part, a long time ago I read something that always come back to my mind : “the price of being a sheep is boredom, the price of being a wolf is loneliness…” The more I grow the more I find it to be true. And that’s to reply about the lonewolf part, because it is not only in the business that you will be alone. Rising cuts you from the masses. And this is not always easy to handle actually, but when you know it it’s alright. That’s all I have to say hehe.

Articles like this separate your blog from the rest. Absolutely brilliant. Curious as to where you read up on some fortunate individuals requiring less sleep than others. Where did you read about it? Would love to study this further.

I believe the real genius of his articles aren’t the fact that they are “different”. I believe the real genius of his blog boils down to the fact that he’s able to breakdown that silent voice in the back of everyone’s head and express it with charisma.

The same way Napoleon did it with the French, Hitler with his people and Stalin etc.

His blog posts remind me of a very interesting thing Napoleon said regarding his position as emperor:

“What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state— I alone am here the representative of the people.”

Victor is to his blog what Napoleon was to France. He embodies what he preaches. When he talks about putting your heart and soul or bleeding into your work . This is the result.

I can bet if he decides to do it all over again under a new identity, the result will be the same. A kick ass blog no one can compete with.

I first read that Dana White had a condition where he only needs 2-3 hours of sleep per night and I set out to find the answer. I studied it because I wanted it — I hate sleeping, it gets in the way so much. Being tired is just as bad, you cannot get anything done.

If you’re interested and haven’t already heard about it, there’s a hype about polyphasic sleeping. Haven’t tried it myself because it does not seem sustainable or healthy for that matter. You should check it out either way. Who knows you might see something I haven’t .

It is true that many successful people in sport and business can go without long sleep hours. I was reading the book Muscletown USA: Bob Hoffman and the Manly Culture of York Barbell Book by John D. Fair, and Bob Hoffman was another who only slep for about 4 hours. Also the wrestling promoter, Vince McMahann, like Donald Trump, gets away with only thre to four hour of sleep. Then Vince get up to put in two hours of muscle training and then off to the office. Amazing. I really appriciate you, Vic for giving us readers the details of Modafinil. This will come in handy when working on projects for certain periods.

Thank you for another super post, Victor! I like that you stick to the habitual discipline points such as like “no more than necessary sleep time” and no distractions. Indeed many people tend to spend a hell of the time for completely useless activities such as emails checking 100 times a day, reading kardashian news, trying to make sense out of “relationship quarrels”, watching tv, imagining nice ways of vengeance on people they don’t like, thinking about all sorts of trifles. Unfortunately, we’re all guilty of such absurd blasphemies, more or less. This is why self-control is an essential topic to bring up again and again as a reminder.

Hey. This guy (Donald Trump) is an utter fruit cake, but he sure has balls on knows EXACTLY what it takes, and what to do, to be a success —- time and time and time again. Great post Victor as always. Some lessons for us all!

Hey Victor, this is seriously a long article, but guess what, I read every single word from beginning to the end.
This article impressed me and I’m feeling all fired up now.
Some of the thinkings are hard to swallow, but they are so right.
I’ve scheduled to share this post on my Facebook and bookmarked it under my “Remarkable” content folder.

By the way Victor, I love #1, don’t take vacation. I’m my own business. :)
Love it. Cheers,
Shawn

Sleep is the big one for me. I like how you said that driven people hate sleep because it gets in the way of work. I guess I’ve never really realized it, but I hate having to force myself to go to bed at midnight just because I have to get up at five in the morning. Five hours of sleep is the absolute minimum that I need, anything less than that, and I’ll need at least a total of three cups of coffee to get me through the day. I’m actually fighting off sleep now, as 1 a.m. approaches.

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